The best book a writer can ever write is a book that chooses its readers, not the other way around.

What determined whether the people before my eyes really are themselves, was my own self. If I were to leave those doubts and distance aside, they would become lies. If I were to put my trust into them and compromise, they would become real. - Kirigaya Kazuto (Kirito), Sword Art Online

"Perhaps a more important reason for having education is the reality of not having an education and the denying of understanding to those who have no education." - Touno Mamare, author of Maoyuu Maoh Yuusha (translated from Japanese)

Paper is more patient than man, but it is still nothing compared to a good friend.

To a man, his world is what he sees, thinks and believes. But the man is not the world. He is just a part of it - just a fragment of its knowledge, culture and perspective.

القراءة المبالغ فيها لا تجعل منا أذكياء. بعض الناس يبتلعون الكتب, وهم يفعلون ذلك بدون فاصل للتفكير الضروري. وهو ضروري لكي يهضم المقروء ويبنى ويتبنى ويُفهم